Category: Interesting

October 19, 2026

Dark Data and Archive Optimization

Archiving and data handling is one of those things that happens on the back end for most organizations; no one really thinks about it too hard. But that’s also one of the places your performance can start flagging and your costs start rising, all entirely out of view. Let’s look at archive optimization – and […]

October 12, 2026

Attack on Lithuania’s EPEKIS Archive System

Lithuania’s Ministry of the Interior reported a cyberattack on the EPEKIS archival information system. Unauthorized access to the system was blocked, and the ministry passed...

October 5, 2026

Cybersecurity Month 2026

October is recognized within the EU as Cybersecurity Month. This makes it a perfect time to reflect on all that’s changed in the last year, the current state of the field, and a...

September 29, 2026

“Why should I track data access?”

Tracking data access and lineages is a necessity for modern businesses, both for reasons of compliance, security and peace of mind. But actually doing it is harder than it would...

September 21, 2026

Accessible archives in the AI age

It has been obvious for some time that the advent of generative AI and enterprise AI tools would force organizations to work differently with their data. Now, the International...

September 14, 2026

The Return of the Tape – Archiving on Physical Media

Archiving and data storage in general has, over the past decades, been overwhelmingly shifting towards digital. Now for the first time in years, LTO tapes are making a comeback...

September 7, 2026

Organizing archives – what to keep and why

Quite often, organizations archive data without engaging fully with the complexities of how to arrange it, what to preserve, and most importantly why it is being preserved....

August 31, 2026

The moving target of data security

We’ve covered data security extensively on this blog, including questions of disaster recovery, resilience, and how to use archiving and backups to better organize your...

August 24, 2026

Offline, Online, and On-Cloud

Archives and backups all require an allocation of space and resources – but where should you put this space, and how should you configure your systems? Let’s delve into some...

August 17, 2026

Archiving, Backups and Migration

Archiving, backups and migration are the topics of the day. All of these describe data handling, each necessary in their own way. But what are they, how do they interact, and at...

August 10, 2026

Resilience with contentACCESS

Last week, we looked at the difference between some closely interrelated terms – disaster recovery, restore, and data resilience. Today, let’s look at how your company...

August 3, 2026

Navigating resilience and recovery – the key points

Backup, disaster recovery and operational resilience are all words that get tossed around in discussions. But what are the differences between these, and what are the key points...

July 27, 2026

Cyberattack on the Romanian Land Registry

News broke last week of a cyberattack on the Romanian Land Registry. The attacker initially deployed ransomware in an extortion attempt, but after failing to achieve his payout...

July 20, 2026

Maintaining archives – the best practices

It’s one thing to have established an archive of your business data, ticking that particular box. The next step comes with maintaining this archive – keeping everything...

July 13, 2026

What should my email archive achieve?

Over 300 billion emails are sent every day; with that sheer volume, email archiving is not just about trying to capture everything that passed through your servers. Any...

July 5, 2026

What is a legacy data system?

TECH-ARROW has consistently warned against legacy systems being kept as part of your data structure and management – but what is a legacy data system, really? There’re a...

June 29, 2026

Security in the SaaS environment

The recently published Infinite Campus Data Breach provides us a good segue into the topic of data security in the SaaS environment – how it differs from security in general,...

June 22, 2026

“What data do I keep?”

The data explosion continues to rebound across the world, with unintended consequences for all involved. The pressures of the last decade – trying to minimize data load on...

June 15, 2026

Before an AI transformation – a data one

The advent of AI tools has been transforming businesses across different fields and applications. But there’s one commonality between all of these diverse fields: before an AI...

June 8, 2026

Phishing campaign targeting Signal

The newest information making it across the cybersecurity world is that a wave of attacks have hit, part of what seems to be a coordinated phishing campaign targeting Signal....